Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

I’ve been using Google Reader for sev­eral years now. I’ve tried alter­na­tive read­ers but have always come back to Google Reader. In the early days I had a hand­ful of feeds, mostly tech blogs and it was easy to read through all of them every morn­ing. Over time I con­tin­ued to add feeds, every­thing from tech […]

In defence of Jim Jones — LIVE @ MIXnote, Day Two — Uber Creepy Tour: Aban­doned Six Flags New Orleans [69 Pics] — Review: Aper­ture 3 — Inter­view: Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie on Sil­verlight and Win­dows Phone — 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Martha Stew­art — Quick­sil­ver Updates, Improves Per­for­mance and Sta­bil­ity (for Some Users) [Downloads] — Build­ing a Win­dows Phone 7 […]

The title says it all. I’ve been neglect­ing my blog lately. I had some major things hap­pen back at the  end of last year and just got out of the habit of post­ing. but I’m going to try to get back in to the rou­tine of post­ing at least once a week or so. I decided […]

Go: new open source pro­gram­ming lan­guage from Google — The 25 Lazi­est Cities In Amer­ica — Look at #1, #3 and #25 Blown To Smithereens: The Secret Story Of Sur­vival Town — 10 More Myths Debunked — Cor­ru­gated Steel Fall­out Shel­ter Pro­tects Against Most Mild Rain­storms, Prob­a­bly [Retro­modo] — I see a week­end project for Lake Blake

Yes­ter­day I had to stop by Home Depot to pick up a part for my refrig­er­a­tor. I bought one item and received nearly 36 inches of receipt!  A large por­tion was the logo, the phone num­ber and address fol­lowed by a  line of aster­isks, the actual trans­ac­tion and a huge sec­tion ded­i­cated to a sur­vey. Why do I […]

From the Blog: What I did Last Week on the Web Octo­ber 27th (http://bhnet.me/5r) [helmsb] Ok enough rain [helmsb] Really cool home movie from San Fran­cisco 1958 http://vimeo.com/6337228 (via @joeygibson ‘s Face­book) [helmsb] Shared Is Google Secretly Work­ing On A Free Mobile Nav­i­ga­tion App? [Rumor]. Shared Photo of the Day: “Hell Freezes Over”. Shared Schwarzenegger […]

I’m curi­ous, if you own an iPhone what’s on your home­screen? You can post a list in the com­ments or attach a photo. Below is a screen­shoot of mine.

NBC Pre­pares For The Win­ter Olympics With Sil­verlight, HD Video, And Face­book Con­nect — The One And Only Christo­pher Walken Per­form­ing Lady GaGa’s ‘Poker Face’ — Photo of the Day: “Amish Online Dat­ing” — Dan­git! Another one of my ideas have been stolen! Over­loaded truck -

From the Blog: What I did Last Week on the Web Octo­ber 27th (http://bhnet.me/5r) [helmsb] Ok enough rain [helmsb] Really cool home movie from San Fran­cisco 1958 http://vimeo.com/6337228 (via @joeygibson ‘s Face­book) [helmsb] Shared Is Google Secretly Work­ing On A Free Mobile Nav­i­ga­tion App? [Rumor]. Shared Photo of the Day: “Hell Freezes Over”. Shared Schwarzenegger […]

Giz Explains: Why Every Coun­try Has a Dif­fer­ent F#$%ing Plug [Giz Explains] — Tom from MySpace finally gives Face­book a shot — I think this is a fairly accu­rate rep­re­sen­ta­tion Schwarzeneg­ger Gives Cal­i­for­nia Leg­is­la­ture A Hid­den Fin­ger — Schwarzeneg­ger for PRESIDENT! Photo of the Day: “Hell Freezes Over” — Is Google Secretly Work­ing On A […]